Thanks to the Supreme Court, Shaun McCutcheon is the new face of money in politics.

And he’s enjoying his moment in the limelight.

Exactly one week before the high court made him a historic figure, the GOP donor and activist was hobnobbing at a fundraiser at Sheldon Adelson’s sprawling Las Vegas estate with some of the biggest players in Republican politics.

Since the court’s decision last week striking down limits on total campaign contributions, McCutcheon has been in even higher demand, becoming a conservative superstar of sorts — an everyman champion who embodies the American spirit and successfully took on big government.

Represented by a high-powered East Coast public relations firm, he is self-publishing an e-book due out shortly, has appeared on television as a commentator on money in politics issues and is in talks with several leading speaking bureaus.

“It’s rare and sweet,” McCutcheon said in an interview about his rise to overnight stardom as the public face of the biggest campaign finance case since 2010’s CitizensUnited case. “It’s been a lot more than what I expected in terms of publicity.”

Even Adelson — the casino magnate who spent more than $100 million boosting Republicans in 2012 and is intensely courted by all manner of operatives and politicians — was interested in an audience with McCutcheon.

The two chatted briefly about his Supreme Court case late last month at an event Adelson hosted for GOP congressional candidate and tea party favorite Niger Innis.

The case challenged aggregate caps on how much a donor can give to all parties and candidates, and McCutcheon said Adelson “basically agreed with me.” One week later, the court sided with McCutcheon, reshaping the campaign finance landscape.

Suddenly McCutcheon’s name was everywhere, with top Republicans praising the decision and liberals convinced that he was really a Trojan horse for mega-donors like Adelson.

It was quite a twist for an electrical engineer from Birmingham, Ala. who was initially reluctant to bring the case and protests that he’s “not even that rich.”

It’s that aw-shucks manner that make him such a potent symbol for conservatives. He’s a small business owner — not a Wall Street banker, a Beltway lobbyist or an oil magnate like the GOP mega-donors vilified by Democrats — who was hand-picking candidates to support and argued successfully that the government was infringing on his rights to do so freely.

He’s like “the millionaire next door,” joked David Keating, president of the Center for Competitive Politics, a group supposes fewer campaign finance restrictions. “He’s really an ideal client,” Keating said. “He’s articulate on the issue, he believes in it and he’s willing to put his name on it.”

“People have asked him to do all sorts of stuff,” said his attorney Dan Backer, who first encouraged McCutcheon to bring the lawsuit several years back.

Backer, who also attended the fundraiser at Adelson’s house, represents Innis’s campaign, as well as other political entities represented at Adelson’s, such as the Tea Party Leadership Fund, whose president Todd Ceferatti attended the event. And, while neither Backer nor McCutcheon would provide specifics, both said there are a number of conservative groups that are looking to leverage his public presence on behalf of their issues. That includes offers to chair several political action committees and outside groups — offers that he said he’ll likely decline in favor of being a financier, an activist and a Republican fundraiser.

“I have several offers to be chairman of organizations,” McCutcheon said. “I want to move over to being an advocate of free speech.”

Levick — a big public relations and public affairs firm — has been managing McCutcheon’s rise onto the national stage. The firm has been pitching journalists on McCutcheon interviews for the better part of a year — setting up meetings, bringing McCutcheon to Washington far in advance of the Supreme Court decision and helping him navigate the media environment.

Last year, he was the subject of profiles in national publications like the Huffington Post, POLITICO, USA Today and others in advance of oral arguments in front of the Supreme Court in the case that bears his name. In many of those interviews, he expressed his amazement at becoming the plaintiff in a key case with the ability to completely reshape politics and fundraising.

“Lawsuits were not something I set out to get into,” McCutcheon told POLITICO in an interview last fall. Backer and McCutcheon met at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference and Backer encouraged him to bring the suit challenging the limits. According to McCutcheon, Backer vowed to he could take it all the way to the Supreme Court.

“I honestly did not believe him,” McCutcheon said.

Since the court’s conservative majority sided with him and his attorneys, he’s been on a broadcast media tear — appearing on high profile television appearances to defend the rights to donors to give to politicians.

“I’ve really tried to prioritize the media because they don’t necessarily want to talk to you every day,” McCutcheon said.

He has appeared on Fox News, CBS, Al Jazeera America, MSNBC, the Blaze and others in the wake of the decision — culminating in a Sunday appearance on “Meet the Press,” where he sparred with campaign finance reformer and Public Citizen President Robert Weissman.

For Backer, McCutcheon’s sudden political appeal is easy to understand — but also easy to overstate.

“It’s interesting to meet someone who has taken a case to the Supreme Court. That’s just kinda cool. It’s like meeting Miranda or something,” Backer said, referring to the plaintiff in a famous case that established the right to remain silent during an arrest.

But he questioned the reach of McCutcheon’s stardom beyond conservative political finance circles.

“I don’t know that an endorsement from Shaun is going to help or hurt anybody all that much,” he said. “I just think it’s meaningless to most people.”